Pointer states that digital passports are the key to convincing companies and governments that digital IDs are more efficient than physical documents.
“There’s a ‘chicken and egg’ problem in place when it comes to the digital passport, said Webster – you cannot utilize a digital passport unless there’s acceptance of a digital passport.”
With businesses largely moving their work online on an unprecedented scale due to coronavirus, digital ID and verification has become a necessity. Pointer argues that it may become a widely accepted practice much sooner than it would have if the crisis had not caused such disruption.
But on a wider scale, change is inexorable. Wielding plastic IDs at checkout and at the airline gate, and swiping cards through readers, becomes all the more fraught as we confront a post-coronavirus world